Clouds flowing over a hill,
Sky on a sunny day,
Tangerines that are bitter,
Lucky four-leaf clover,
Violets in the garden,
Dandelions along a path,
Unavoidable sleeping time,
Liquid flowing from a slashed wrist.
Don Juan: Canto II
They looked up into the sky, whose floating glow
Spread like a rosy ocean, vast and bright;
They gazed upon the glittering sea below,
Whence the broad moon rose circling into sight;
They heard the waves splash, and the wind so low,
And saw each other’s dark eyes darting light
Into each other- and, beholding this,
Their lips drew near, and clung into a kiss;
A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love,
And beauty, all concentrating like rays
Into one focus, kindled from above;
Such kisses as belong to early days,
Where heart, and soul, and sense, in concert move,
And the blood’s lava, and the pulse a blaze,
Each kiss a heart-quake – for a kiss’s strength,
I think, it must be reckoned by its length.
They feared no eyes nor ears on that lone beach,
They felt no terrors from the night, they were
All in all to each other: though their speech
Was broken words, they thought a language there-
And all the burning tongues the passions teach
Found in one sigh, the best interpreter
Of nature’s oracle – first love – that all
Which Eve has left her daughters since her fall.
The lady watched her lover – and that hour
Of Love’s and Night’s, and Ocean’s solitude,
O’erflowed her soul with their united power;
Amidst the barren sand and rocks so rude
She and her wave-worn love had made their bower,
Where naughty upon their passion could intrude,
And all the stars that crowded the blue space
Saw nothing happier than her glowing face.
And now ‘twas done – on the lone shore were plighted
Their hearts; the stars, their nuptial torches, shed
Beauty upon the beautiful they lighted:
Ocean their witness, and the cave their bed,
By their own feelings hallowed and united,
Their priest was Solitude, and they were wed:
And they were happy, for to their young eyes
Each was and angel, and earth paradise.
Time tells all
“Amidst the mist, I await on a barren ridge, with the surf crashing against the rocks, I wait for life to come. I continuously wait, waiting for something to come, a life, a lover anything would do, but as life does, it stays in a constant flow like the great rivers that run and branch off in this place we live. I look towards the sky, the stars twinkle and intermingle with one another, speaking between themselves in broken words, I laugh silently to myself wondering what will happen next. In another place at the same exact moment in time there sits someone just as lonely as I. She sits in a deserted field with the wind blowing against her back, a gentle breeze it is with whispering words of innocence and peace, yet she sits alone with the wind at her back. She is comforted by a presence that isn’t there, but to no avail we both continue to wait, waiting for time to decide, to decide our faith and determine our destiny. Somewhere in the wilderness love came to two unannounced people, and on that night they rejoiced for now they were united in love together, never to part; and for those that still wait remember this, only time tells all.”
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